An SRV record, which stands for Service record, is a DNS entry which is used to define the servers which run a specific service for a domain. Quite simply, you will be able to use your domain not only for an Internet site, but also for an instant messaging server, a video streaming host or perhaps a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, while you still have an Internet site with it. If you set up the SRV record, you may choose what Internet Protocol it is going to use, on which port the connection to the particular server is going to be established plus the priority and the weight of the record in case that you have several SRV records for the exact same service. The latter option allows you to use different machines for load balancing and redundancy. With this type of DNS records, you could use the same domain many different purposes and even with different providers in case the same one can't provide all services you need.
SRV Records in Cloud Hosting
You'll be able to set up a new SRV record for any one of the domain names you host in a shared website hosting account on our revolutionary cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you can manage them without any difficulty through the respective section of your Hepsia CP and only minutes later any new record you create is going to be active. Hepsia includes a rather intuitive interface and all it requires to set up an SRV record is to fill in just a few text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave except when the other provider needs different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to remain active when you modify it or delete it at some point, the standard one being 3600.